inspired by henry david thoreau's hut at walden pond. Translated as a tool for our time tuned to planet earth. A minimum prototype that adjusts to its environment in the sense that a tree does, ie autonomous energy, info, water+food, integrated structure, environmental systems with louvre skins that respond via sensors to temperature, wind, moisture and light.
'..THIS FRAME SO SLIGHTLY CLAD, WAS A SORT OF CRYSTALLISATION AROUND ME..'
Thoreau.

Wednesday, 13 August 2008

much has happened over the preceding months, the development of click-raft prototype01 has been steady but slow. The prototype has been enlarged to 3 times its original size to a 6.0m long unit, which has just received permission to be located in a garden village within the city park of Groningen. Work on site has just begun and the foundation and floor-raft have been set up.

Additionally : -

NEW VIDEO – 3 part documentary interviewing a range of experts in developing trends in how cities might look in the future titled ‘The City, the Globe, and ...’. I am interviewed about the click-raft and there is a sequence which shows setting it up and the principles of it. If anyone is interested in the DVD 'The City, the Globe, and...' let me know and I will see if I can arrange one from Pavlov Medialab who produced it.

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Background

How should we dwell on planet earth? If a computer can be made for $100 (think how absurd this would have sounded 20 years ago) - then why not a building?

It is time to drag architecture kicking and screaming into being a super inexpensive enabling tool. A device that is in-tune with our fragile planet!

The CLICK-RAFT is an inexpensive fabrication architecture – inspired by Thoreau's hut at Walden Pond, the citroen TPV, and lego. Click-Leaf architecture is a playful open system which utilizes the qualities of CNC cut plywood in click-leaf’s and click-beam’s to form a lattice of structure/networks assembled from standard panels which can be quickly ‘clicked’ together to form floor, wall, and roof click-rafts in different configurations

Click-leaf’s are assembled into Y-frame pairs and clicked into click-beam’s which together integrate structure, cladding, power/data networks, plumbing, energy, water systems, storage and furniture within the weave of the plywood structure.

The system’s flexibility offers many alternative open ended configurations to enable user/builder to respond to site specific conditions. Construction is generated by an assemblage of click-components which can be tuned on site – engaging user input, imagination, and exploration.